By The Numbers

By The Numbers is a short visual summary of Camp Ritchie training statistics — class sizes, curriculum shape, specialties, and high decorations. Open any figure for the full table. Detailed pages carry source notes and copyright from Beverley Driver Eddy’s Ritchie Boy Secrets.

These are historical appendix / spreadsheet figures, not live counts from every soldier page on this wiki. Roster browse: Classes · By birth country.

31

Eight-week MITC classes

27 July 1942 – 22 September 1945

11,637

Eight-week graduates

of 15,253 enrolled in Classes 1–31

19,679

Graduates, all course types

MITC, AGF, CIC, and occasional instruction*

59

Medal of Honor · DSC · Silver Star

1 · 1 · 57 named in the awards table

*Grand total on the student-numbers page; it differs slightly from some official MITC histories because of an addition error in occasional-instruction figures.

Classes 1–31 edit

The core Ritchie Boy path was the eight-week Military Intelligence Training Center course. Class 1 graduated 32 soldiers; later classes grew into the hundreds. Class 18 graduated the most (622); Class 25 had the largest enrollment (779).

Full schedule and per-class counts → Eight Week Classes — Dates & Graduation Numbers
Browse a class roster → Classes

Curriculum and specialties edit

Each eight-week class spent about five weeks on general instruction (272 hours: terrain, signals, staff duties, enemy armies, photo interpretation, and related subjects) and three weeks on specialized tracks (82 hours), then a multi-day terrain exercise.

Specialty columns in Appendix 6 include IPW (German, Italian, and other), photo interpretation, counterintelligence, terrain and signal intelligence, and language tracks.

Hour breakdown → Eight Week Class Content
Specialty counts by class → Eight Week Courses by Specialties

Awards edit

The awards sheet lists Ritchie Boys recorded with the Medal of Honor (1), Distinguished Service Cross (1), and Silver Star (57). Names link to soldier profiles when a clear roster match exists; ribbon displays on matched profiles come from the same source work.

Full awards tables → Awards · Awards faces

All detail pages edit

Student Numbers — All Classes

Graduates by MITC, AGF, CIC, and occasional courses

Eight Week Classes — Dates & Grads

Classes 1–31 schedule and graduation counts

Eight Week Class Content

General and specialized instruction hours

Courses by Specialties

Appendix 6 specialty-track matrix

Awards

Medal of Honor, DSC, and Silver Star lists